Maccaveli - Night Life (jazzy 2step garage)

[Maccaveli]

Little UKG tune I just finished, the instrumentation is sampled from the LA Noire soundtrack so don't give me any credit there haha. Let us know what you think
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[Sexual_Chocolate]

im down with this

[Shum]

you produced this tune yeah? (didn't know you were a producer lol) nice work getting your rhythms to ride those samples. one of the better tunes i've heard around here in a while.

the following criticisms some with a solid IMO stamped on them.

- bit too much verb on some of your percussive elements and your snare needs to stand out just a wee bit more.
- i reckon you could squeeze a bit more swing in there, but don't push it too much.
- if i had written this i would approach the breakdown by applying a low pass filter to the main samples so you still have that rich bass while giving everyone a break from the brass.
- alternatively i probably would have played along with the bass part with a simple bass synth (sine/triangle ting), even written more of a bassline on top.

[Maccaveli]

you produced this tune yeah? (didn't know you were a producer lol) nice work getting your rhythms to ride those samples. one of the better tunes i've heard around here in a while.

the following criticisms some with a solid IMO stamped on them.

- bit too much verb on some of your percussive elements and your snare needs to stand out just a wee bit more.
- i reckon you could squeeze a bit more swing in there, but don't push it too much.
- if i had written this i would approach the breakdown by applying a low pass filter to the main samples so you still have that rich bass while giving everyone a break from the brass.
- alternatively i probably would have played along with the bass part with a simple bass synth (sine/triangle ting), even written more of a bassline on top.

Haha yeah man it's me, I've been producing since 2009 with a big break for pretty much all of last year. All the beats on my Soundcloud are from this year and pretty much show my progression from when I started to take it more seriously around January. Thanks for the kind words!

As for the criticisms I definitely agree with the reverb comment, I lowered it a bit during mixing but with further listening I can tell it wasn't quite enough. I don't really want to risk messing up up the organic feel of the track by adding a synth mid-bass, I guess I'm not really confident that I could make it fit in. I'll try the breakdown idea now though, I like the sound of that

[Electric_Head]

Nice work, very chilled soulful beats macca.

[Everen]

noiceeee

[particle-jim]

Real nice tune mate, i'd agree with what shum said about the reverb but that's pretty minor really, big ups mate

[Maccaveli]